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Pope Francis meeting a group of nuns in Vatican City, 2023. Francis was ordained...

Mother Teresa

St. Teresa of Calcutta (Kolkata) is known to most people as Mother Teresa. She founded...

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Thea Bowman was an American nun of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration....

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Gustavo Gutiérrez was a Peruvian theologian and priest of the Dominican order. He...

Joseph Raymond—University Life Initiatives/Notre Dame

Thomas Merton was an American writer who entered a Trappist abbey in the 1940s and...

Photograph of Thomas Merton by Sibylle Akers. Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University

American attorney, activist, and poet, Simone Campbell is a member of the Sisters...

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A group of friars arriving at the cathedral in Turin, Italy, to see the Shroud of...

Skellig Michael

Ruins of an eremitic monastic community on Skellig Michael, an island off the coast...

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